Pineapple-crate.



H. B. KOPF.

PINEAPPLE CRATE.

.APPLICATION FILED 0m15.191s,

Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

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HENRY B. KOPF, OF NEW' HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PINEAPPLE-CRATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3i, 1.916.

i Application filed December 6, 1915. Serial No. 65,257.

T0 r/.ZZ 'whom it may concern Be it known that' I, HENRY B. KOPF, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pineapple- Crates; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a view in perspective of a pineapple crate constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 an enlarged view of the crate with the cover removed to show the arrangement of the corrugated paper cells within the crate body. Fig. 3 a detached perspective view of one of the rectangular corrugated cells of the crate.,

My invention relates to an improvement in pineapple crates, the object being to provide an arrangement of corrugated vpaper cells within the crate-body so as 4to prevent them from collapsing under sidewise pressure.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a pineapple crate having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

As herein shown I employ an oblong, rectangular crate-body 2 having a hipped cover 3 which may be secured in place in any ap proved manner. As herein shown, the said body and cover are reinforced by light sheet metal straps 1I. Within the crate-body I locate rectangular paper cells 5 one of which is shown in perspective in Fig. 3, each cell being made from a single piece of paper the ends of which are abutted at one corner as Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the V collapsed by lateral at 6. The crate-body, as shown, is divided by a partition 7 into two equal rectangular compartments S each adapted in size for the reception of four of the cells 5 which are positioned in the respective compartments 8 so that their abutting ends are diametrically opposite the centers of the respective compartrnents. Under this arrangement the side walls ofthe cells support each other and cannot be collapsed by undue lateral pressure in any direction.

Of course, the crates will be varied in capacityy according to the size of the pineapples and the requirements of the trade. The crate chosen for illustration is designed for eight pineapples, but, of course, I do not limit myself to crates of this or any other given capacity.

I claim z- 1. In a pineapple crate, the combination with the crate-body and cover thereof, of a plurality of individual, rectangular pineapple cells yeach consisting of a sheet of paper board having itsk ends abutted and the cells being relatively positioned so that their abutting ends will be located in corners of the crate-body, whereby the side walls of the cells are prevented from being collapsed by lateral pressure.

2. In a pineapple crate, the combination with the crate-body and cover thereof, the body having a rectangular compartment, of four individual, rectangular pineapple cells each consisting of a sheet of paper board having its ends abutted and the cells being positioned within the compartment so that their abutting ends are diametrically opposite the center thereof, whereby the side walls of the cells are prevented from being pressure.

HENRY B. VKOPF.

Commissioner of Patents,

v Washington, D. C. 

